[sup-talk] [PATCH] shell commands are now run in a child process

William Morgan wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net
Tue Feb 5 15:12:23 EST 2008


Reformatted excerpts from Christopher Warrington's message of 2008-02-05:
> No, it's not elegant at all. mbox sources do still work, though. I
> only close the files in the child process. They remain open in sup's
> main process.

Oh, I see. Sorry, I misread the patch.

It would be good to understand this a bit more. Why are the Ferret
errors caused by open filehandles? And Windows supports fork now? I
thought that didn't work.

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William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


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